Regional Pilots?
01-07-2007, 06:13 PM
#21
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Originally Posted by XtremeF150
Well, you do get less guarented days off, but sometimes you can get a lot more days off than a line holder, at least in our company. We do only get 76 hours paid a month unless your credit time goes over this. However, about 30 - 40% of the line holders don't break the guarentee anyway. This means if these guys fly 60 hours they still get paid the same as a guy like me that spent my time going to the gym or working on the house...basically enjoying myself. Just limits your drinking nights since you are on call.
Oh and you can request to be called last or called first based on your seniority and whether you want to work or not
Oh and you can request to be called last or called first based on your seniority and whether you want to work or not
01-07-2007, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by N6724G
SO, can you request to be called everyday if you want to ?
01-07-2007, 06:52 PM
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An hour to report at our regional. No airport reserve. The only thing that really sucks about sitting reserve is not getting per diem pay. Guess the call time just varies depending on how big the cities are that your airline has bases in. Just make sure you have a cell phone, some guys here are not willing to pay the cell phone bill and will sit at home all day long to be next to their "cheaper" phone! I'm cheap, thankfully not that cheap. Gotta go to the gym atleast once a mon... year, I mean.
01-07-2007, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Nick
An hour to report at our regional. No airport reserve. The only thing that really sucks about sitting reserve is not getting per diem pay.
True. Worse if your airline is staffed even somewhat properly and you don't ever break gaurantee and/or can't pick up open time in a day off.
01-07-2007, 07:07 PM
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Ok, this is an interesting discussion, but I am really not following it. You guys are using terms that I (a non airline pilot) do not understand.
So, in the interest of clarity, could you guys, in basic terms expalin to me what being on reserves mean. I mean I know it means you are on call, but you guys are talking about 2 hour reserves and 12 hour reserves.
1. Do yu have set days on and set days off?
2. Do you have to be at the airport on your days on in case they call you or can you be at your house?
So, in the interest of clarity, could you guys, in basic terms expalin to me what being on reserves mean. I mean I know it means you are on call, but you guys are talking about 2 hour reserves and 12 hour reserves.
1. Do yu have set days on and set days off?
2. Do you have to be at the airport on your days on in case they call you or can you be at your house?
01-07-2007, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by N6724G
Ok, this is an interesting discussion, but I am really not following it. You guys are using terms that I (a non airline pilot) do not understand.
So, in the interest of clarity, could you guys, in basic terms expalin to me what being on reserves mean. I mean I know it means you are on call, but you guys are talking about 2 hour reserves and 12 hour reserves.
1. Do yu have set days on and set days off?
2. Do you have to be at the airport on your days on in case they call you or can you be at your house?
So, in the interest of clarity, could you guys, in basic terms expalin to me what being on reserves mean. I mean I know it means you are on call, but you guys are talking about 2 hour reserves and 12 hour reserves.
1. Do yu have set days on and set days off?
2. Do you have to be at the airport on your days on in case they call you or can you be at your house?
you have set days off (depending on your schedule that bid period) but generally fewer than people that have a flying line.
each airline is slightly different in how they want reserves to be situated. if you're airport reserve, you have to be sitting at the airport in uniform, ready to go.
the 2hr call means from the time they call, you have 2 hours to be at the airport ready to go. so if you live 45 minutes from the airport, you can sit at home while on reserve.
12hr call means that you need to show up in 12 hours once you get the call. generally its when they find out the need someone tomorrow, but don't want to waste a 2hr or airport reserve person, i.e., it's not an emergency fill-in
hope that helps
01-07-2007, 08:37 PM
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Thanks btwissel,
That helped a lot. So, its like being a roustabout (In the Police world, that swhat we call the new guys that works the beat of an officer that calls in sick or has a scehduled day off)
1. What is a bid period
2. WHat does flying thr line mea? I hear that ter m a lot. I assume it means each pilot bids a ertain work line. A Line being a work schedule (ex. Mon-Fri with Sat and Suun off). When I was a ramp agent, I thik we did something similar but that was in 1996 and I didnt really pay that much attention to it.
That helped a lot. So, its like being a roustabout (In the Police world, that swhat we call the new guys that works the beat of an officer that calls in sick or has a scehduled day off)
1. What is a bid period
2. WHat does flying thr line mea? I hear that ter m a lot. I assume it means each pilot bids a ertain work line. A Line being a work schedule (ex. Mon-Fri with Sat and Suun off). When I was a ramp agent, I thik we did something similar but that was in 1996 and I didnt really pay that much attention to it.
01-07-2007, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by N6724G
Thanks btwissel,
That helped a lot. So, its like being a roustabout (In the Police world, that swhat we call the new guys that works the beat of an officer that calls in sick or has a scehduled day off)
1. What is a bid period
2. WHat does flying thr line mea? I hear that ter m a lot. I assume it means each pilot bids a ertain work line. A Line being a work schedule (ex. Mon-Fri with Sat and Suun off). When I was a ramp agent, I thik we did something similar but that was in 1996 and I didnt really pay that much attention to it.
That helped a lot. So, its like being a roustabout (In the Police world, that swhat we call the new guys that works the beat of an officer that calls in sick or has a scehduled day off)
1. What is a bid period
2. WHat does flying thr line mea? I hear that ter m a lot. I assume it means each pilot bids a ertain work line. A Line being a work schedule (ex. Mon-Fri with Sat and Suun off). When I was a ramp agent, I thik we did something similar but that was in 1996 and I didnt really pay that much attention to it.
and a line is just that, it's a line of the overall schedule for the airline for that month.
so for example and to pull it together, lets say you want the 12th and 13th of Feb. off.
you then bid a line that includes those days off. if you have the seniority to hold onto that line, you are awarded that schedule for that chunk of calendar. if not (say someone more senior wants the same line) you then get bumped.
most if not all bid processes allow you to bid in preference order, so you can bid as many lines as you want in order of how much you want them. that way, if the one line you wanted is taken by someone else, you aren't left with the crappiest line
01-08-2007, 08:08 AM
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Ok. I was going to ask what happens if you get bumped. Do you go down to the next line? and if so, what if that line is taken by someone senior? But like you said, you can bid many lines in order of your preference. Thanks for the help and forgive my typos. I tend to type fast
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